15 Places That Still Practice Ritual Killings
| December 23, 2016
Mexico
Cartel members in Mexico have been known to commit brutal and merciless killings in the name of crime, but some kill for more supernatural reasons: to please the saint of death.
Belief in the religious cult of Santa Muerte has been spreading in recent years, leading to a rash of human sacrifices in Nacozari in 2012. Police allege that a family of Santa Muerte worshippers kidnapped two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman, cut their wrists and throats and spread their blood on an altar before burying the remains outside of their home.
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